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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Hello?! Is anybody in there?

Forgive me readers, for I have slacked (BIG TIME). It has been 2 years and almost 3 months since my last confession, er....I mean, blog entry.

There was a crisis, of the mid-life variety, to be had. Since I started this blog until now, there have been arguments, tears, revelations, months of excessive wine consumption, the trying on of several career hats, the purging of excess material items and the moving of what was left, the loss of a private yard and the gain of an apartment courtyard, drama with family, and drama with schools (both my son's and mine - by the way, I was an elementary teacher for two years between the last post and this one).

I am awake now. WE, as a family, are awake now. We're wasting no more time. We're setting out on an amazing new adventure.

We've learned so much along this journey during the past few years. Writing about all of our growing pains in one blog post would be ridiculous. I mean, yes, I'm a Leo, but I learned long ago that my problems don't need to become everyone else's, and in that spirit I want to refrain from treating this blog as a place to bitch and wine (or whine), lest I bore you to tears and beyond.

Therefore, I've created a list, and a "blog plan."

The LIST consists of things we've learned and decisions we've made, and I've numbered it, so as to appeal to other list maker types and to give myself the appearance of being an organized person.

1. We want to do all we can to avoid having a mortgage, ever again. Therefore, we will build our own eco-friendly, adobe home, with our very own, 40-something-year-old bare hands. We may enlist in the help of friends and do-gooders when the time comes.

2. We are no longer moving to Mexico, for a few reasons that I don't care to expand on at this time.

3. We are moving to Almost Mexico. In ONE WEEK we will be driving a trailer to San Antonio, TX, where we will be housesitting for a short time (1-3 months).

4. I am homeschooling our son. I could write volumes about the reasons for this, but I'll skip the fury fed typing for now.

5. We are ready to be the people that we are meant to be. We are ready to actually live our lives the way that we want to live them and not care about American Dreams and peoples' judgements and scrutiny. We hope we can help others to wake up and pay more attention to what's going on inside their hearts and heads and less to what's happening in Hollywood and Washington DC.

BLOG PLAN: I'm going to change it up to include a wide spectrum of topics. I'll give more news on this and will provide a link when the ducks are quacking in a row. :)